Mini-bus mooted for Gold Coast areas lacking bus services

A Gold Coast MP says a mini-bus could provide public transport for people in western parts of the city where regular services have been reduced.

The Member for Gaven, Alex Douglas, says there are no buses in areas such as Nerang West between Friday afternoon and Monday morning.

Dr Douglas says a service like the former blue bus at Pacific Pines could help.

"It was an ideal way of providing a connectedness of those people to other bus services or to the metropolitan rail so that they actually could both get to work, they could get to the hospital, they could get to see whomever," he said.

He says a lack of services contributes to social problems.

"I've just been to Massachusetts and they've had the same problems in Boston and clearly the evidence is when you increase the connectedness of all the different groups then you revitalise those communities, you generate a lot more income than the cost of the provision of services by a significant multiplier," he said.